Sahara Adventure Series

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5. SAHARA ADVENTURE SERIES - THE FORT IS QUIET



Teuns Stegmann, Fritz Mundt, and Jack Ritchie were involved in a bar fight with some Arabs and, as a result, were temporarily transferred to Fort Laval, another French fort located in the Sahara desert, as a form of punishment. When Lieutenant Juin and his relief columns arrived at Fort Laval, they immediately recognized that something was amiss. The fort was empty, and the gates were wide open. While the rest of the men waited outside, Teuns and Fritz joined Lieutenant Juin to investigate the situation inside the fort. However, they were quickly overpowered by Brigitte Bonnet, sister of the previous princess of the Dulacs, who sought revenge for her sister’s death and wanted to destroy the French Foreign Legion.


The thirty men, including Teuns and Fritz, were locked up in the sleeping quarters of the fort without food or water. Soon after, they began to hear bloodcurdling screams of pain, and shortly after that, a soldier was carried out by men wearing rubber gloves. Brigitte Bonnet revealed to them that she possessed a highly secret weapon she wanted to test on all the Legion soldiers. Teuns was selected as the next guinea pig for the cruel experiment, and shortly after, his lifeless body was also carried out of the fort. Fritz and Jack were permitted to retrieve water and food one last time before they were shot dead under the pretense of an escape attempt.


The remaining Legion men became increasingly desperate from hunger and thirst and began to hear strange noises coming from the floor of their sleeping quarters, sounding like Morse code. Brigitte Bonnet searched the fort twice to locate the culprits responsible for the noises but found nothing. The following day, Professor Benesj arrived with more soldiers in a cargo plane to test the impact of the deadly secret weapon on the Legion men. The despondent men awaited help before they were taken to the desert for experimentation. As the final arrangements were being made, chaos erupted in Fort Laval, and one shocking incident followed another.

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